Every Monday morning and Friday we are submitted to over 4 hours of multiple leaf blowers so the neighbours can have perfect looking lawns for a day. Town seems unresponsive to changing the bylaws. Any suggestions from #environmental and #health advocates on how to approach getting the bylaws updated to ban gas powered leaf blowers? Unable to work at home during these abusive hours… the constant droning has my nerves shot. #advice
Some suggestions by Theresa Reed, the Tarot Lady. I've kept and continue to keep a #Tarot and #cartomancy journal for years now, and it serves me well.
We have a decent sized yard (0.8 acres) and we fenced it in because we have 2 large dogs you may have seen in other photos of mine (Roux and Snow, 70lbs and 90lbs respectively) as well as 2 indoor-outdoor cats who kill all the rodents in the area.
Unfortunately, a possum in the area seems to have a death wish. It keeps coming into our yard and getting the piss scared out of it by our dogs. We call them off because we don't want them getting sick killing it (one is a Great Pyrenees and the other is a hunting dog. Neither is likely to get hurt, just diseased from biting it.)
But it keeps coming back and coming deeper into the yard and further from the fence. And it is doing so earlier and earlier in the day. And each time, it gets scared to death and runs off after we get the dogs away.
But it keeps coming back and one of these days, we won't be home and our guys will kill it.
Oh my! My bathroom spider just killed a fly in front of my very eyes! The fly had been annoying me for several days, but I’m still glad to see it went pretty quickly.
Welp, does anyone have any recommendations on how to catch a small wolf spider who has recently taken up residence in my bathroom? Normally I let spiders live inside and help out, but I don’t want a temporarily painful and itchy bite (or for Randi the dog or anyone else to get one) and a wolf spider will be ultimately be happier outside anyway.
My preference is catch and release but I have (mostly) accepted that I may need to injure it. Since it is a wolf spider of unknown sex, I cannot just kill it or I risk it dropping an egg sac and/or hundreds of babies.
Additionally, it seems to be on high alert. It is not hiding when I come around like sources tell me it should, instead it watches me. This may be because I corralled it into a cardboard tube to move it out of the tub yesterday pre-bath when I did not yet know what kind of spider it was. (If only I had moved it outside then!!) It has at least moved from yesterday’s post which was terrifyingly next to the toilet and today is standing guard on the wall near the doorway. It switches to pounce position when I walk by but has so far left me alone.
Does anyone know anything about computers? I've heard pros and cons about pre-built computers. I also don't know much about what parts are worth buying, especially GPUs.
Here is a side of gooning no one talks about.
What do you do when you are depressed or lonely?
Well I still chat with my friends.
I still scroll porn.
I still comment I still maintain what I do.
My body will be back to where my kind is soon. Always. #advice#nsfw
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Fedi, some advice please: I recently bought a steel frame (it's part of a table). The paint is flaking off.
I don't want the expense or faff of having it powder-coated - can I just roughly sand off the existing flakes of paint, spray-prime it then use something like a spray paint from a car bodywork place to refresh it?
Once more, another library "Christmas" moment as new Interlibrary Loan (ILL) book request arrived.
This is what I will be reading next. As always, once done, I hope to review it on the blog. If it is as good as it looks, will likely order copy for our library.
Folks, not that I would tell you what to do, but if you have access to a library, odds are they offer ILL. So a book they do not have they can request it on your behalf from a library that does so you can read it. Please return it when done.
Note: It does not work if you are one of those impatient people who needs to read the latest right this second. But if you are more the patient type, you might save some cash.
This is particularly relevant to neurospicy folx. Just "do it harder" is useless advice to us. We have to give ourselves grace and then control our environment. But first we have to stop blaming ourselves.
You are doing the best you can right now, with your situation the way it is.
Hey, if you're a performer of any sort and you have someone you trust watching, get them to record the performance for you. Having access to archives of your work is important to show to peers and veterans to get feedback and grow, as well as yourself. I don't care if it's dance, acting, wrestling, stand up, etc, get someone to record you. #advice#nooneasked#performance#wrestling#dance#standup#theater
H2GE Zine Update:
The first issue of #HowToGenderEuphoria will be about...Gender Euphoria! Wait...um...oh, well, to be more exact, exploring and finding your gender euphoria.
This issue will be written to basically be useful to #TransFem, #TransMasc, #NonBinary, and just about anyone else looking to connect with themselves and their gender presentation. Heck, cis folks might even benefit from this one, though trans people and our needs will be centered.
This will include exploring what gender euphoria even is, what it means for people, dealing with those ide as and images that make it hard to access, and exploring your own gender needs and desires. Heck, I might even throw in some useful primers on feminist topics like "hegemonic masculinity" and subjugated genders for good measure!
If you've been considering subscribing, but weren't certain if this zine would be for you, maybe consider subscribing today? https://patreon.com/JoscelynTranspiring
My inbox is now open for questions, venting, or any other kind of gender euphoria topics you would like to get feedback and support with! Our first issue for January 2024 will be about exploring and finding gender euphoria in general, but much more specific questions are welcome too! And the advice column will always be open to trans fems, trans mascs, enbies of all varieties, ambiguous gender aliens, and even cis people (I know, right?). This is also open to all patrons and non-patrons to ask questions!
Submit questions by direct message on patreon or email me at: howtogendereuphoria@gmail.com
On Wednesday I'll talk about feminist accountability, I'll share some of my activism from the distant past and apologize for my mistakes. I want to ask readers to step into greater accountability in every facet of life.
Yes, we're gonna talk about the American Academy of Pediatrics - this will be part 2 of the AAP series. But it's a much broader conversation this time.
I would seriously consider disabling "Generate Link Previews" feature in any critical communication applications you use. Such feature typically leaks some information about your device (typically at least the IP address). Such features also increase the attack surface for little practical benefit. #advice#privacy#infosec#foreshadowing
Crossing into grumpy old man territory with some random advice: your smartphone is a wonderful device. It can do anything you want it to. But you are atrophying your brain by relying on it for everything. At very least, learn how to navigate without your phone --using a map and pre-planning your route, by memory. #smartphones#advice#mapping#navigation
Okay, #plant people, mostly I like native plants but we are doing our backyard more traditionally, and the landscapers had a communication failure that led to some plants we wanted to save getting cut down. One of these was the old rambling rose with pink and red striped flowers that smelled really good, rosey without being perfumey. I was sad. But now I need to find a rose to replace it with, I like most colors but I like an old fashioned look, rambling, messy #flowers, nice smell but not intense. I might get a #California wild #rose but for various #horticultural varieties, what would you #recommend?
Is there a community like /r/legaladvice or /r/legaladviceofftopic?
I'm looking for a community like /r/legaladvice or /r/legaladviceofftopic from Reddit.
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